This volume traces the developments in Cuba following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent definitive demise of state socialism. Topics covered include: the... Læs mere
This book exposes and traces a previously unrecognized performance tradition of extraordinary Jewish women in the Diaspora, from Rachel and Sarah Bernhardt in Nineteenth Century France to Roseanne and Sandra Bernhard in late Twentieth Century America.
"First published 2006 by Edinburgh University Press"--T.p. verso.
The aim of this volume is to try to account for Isaiah's revolutionary vision from two disciplinary... Læs mere
Volume6 looks at the ways historians have written the history of the region depending upon their methods... Læs mere
Volume 5 provides an account and interpretation of the historical development of the region from around 1930 to the end of the twentieth century. and changes in social and demographic structures, including ethnicity and race consciousness and the role and status of women.
Volume 3 looks at various aspects of slave societies in the region from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.... Læs mere
This volume examines the early mining and planting in Espaniola, privateers and contraband traders, plantation societies, extinction of indigenous populations, and the beginning of the slave trade.
Volume 1 of the General History of the Caribbean relates to the history of the origins of the earliest Caribbean people, and analyses their various political, social, cultural and economic organizations over time.
Harrison offers a new, critical approach to understanding the formation of Taiwan's identity. It applies contemporary social theory and historiography to a wealth of detail on Taiwanese politics, culture and society.
This serves as a handbook to guide us through the thickets of the sacred, the secular, religion and politics, by charting the supernatural... Læs mere
This book shows eminent actors performing under stringent conditions in vaudeville. It was a strange notion in 1900 that leading... Læs mere